Paper Alchemy: Good news in time for Easter

Friday, March 21, 2008

Good news in time for Easter

Café Prückel, established 1903

For the more persistent readers of Paper Alchemy I have good news to report. Recalling the past post "good news/ bad news", I am pleased to announce that I have finally obtained a honey-comb tissue rabbit. While enjoying apple strudel at Café Prückel (www.prueckel.at) in Vienna, I discovered this tiny one-eyed wonder in the basement lost and found.

Café Prückel stairs to the WC and lost & found cabinet

Café Prückel has a tradition of offering lost items for sale in a display-case cabinet of curiosities. Surrounded by decorative hair combs, sweets tins, and a menagerie of miniature animals (including a glass horse and fish as well as spring chicks of various materials) to my surprise I noticed one of the vintage Japanese bunnies I had been so avidly bidding for on ebay. 5 euro cents later the bunny was safely in hand, just in time for my Leisure Projects Easter (working) holiday at gallery Das Weisse Haus (www.dasweissehaus.at).

Tissue paper rabbit (on right), in situ at Café Prückel

1 comments:

LISA PIERCY said...: these honeycomb tissue paper bunnies are a small obsession of mine at the moment!; April 8, 2010 9:56 AM

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Meredith Carruthers

Meredith Carruthers is an artist living in Montreal. In 2004 Meredith completed her MFA at Concordia University, where her studies included the exchange program to The Glasgow School of Art. In recent projects she has constructed a life-sized crepe paper swan and created a velour archipelagos for tinfoil cats. Meredith has participated in exhibitions in Montreal, Vancouver and New York.

Meredith is a member of Leisure Projects with Susannah Wesley, an independent artist-curator initiative that seeks opportunities in glamorous hotel basements, tiny modernist apartments and in the gaps of established gallery programming.

www.leisuregallery.ca

Paper

Paper is thin material used for writing upon, printing upon or packaging. It is produced by the amalgamation of fibres, typically vegetable fibers composed of cellulose, which are subsequently held together by hydrogen bonding. While the fibres are usually natural in origin, a wide variety of synthetic fibres, such as polypropylene and polyethylene, may be incorporated into paper as a way of imparting desirable physical properties. The most common source of these kinds of fibres is wood pulp from pulpwood trees. Vegetable fibre materials such as cotton, hemp, linen, and rice are also used.

Alchemy

Alchemy refers to both an early form of the investigation of nature and an early philosophical and spiritual discipline, both combining elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, spiritualism, and art all as parts of one greater force. Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Muslim civilization, and then in Europe up to the 19th century—in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years.

Friday, March 21, 2008

Good news in time for Easter

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